24 Jul - 3 Sep 2015

24 Jul - 3 Sep 2015
Gemma Bovery
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Come and see us at this year’s Food &
Drink Festival and sample Chef Alex’s
famous Nanaimo Bar!
Sun 30 – Mon 31 Aug
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Farmers’ market
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Beach in Arc
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Chilli festival
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Welcome
Think ice-cold drinks and ice cream; think
air-conditioned screens and great films; think
Abbeygate Cinema this summer!
Our great film line-up for the summer weeks
ahead includes Love & Mercy, which tells
the life story of the legendary Beach Boys
founder Brian Wilson; The Salt Of The
Earth, in which Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
co-directs a look at the career of his father,
photographer Sebastião Salgado; plus the
political debate documentary film Best Of
Enemies.
Gemma Arterton gives a winning
performance in the charming film Gemma
Bovery, and Ant-Man, the latest superhero
film based on the Marvel Comics, opens.
Paul Rudd plays the superhero who can
shrink in size but grow in strength, alongside
Michael Douglas as his mentor.
And for the kids this holiday there’s Inside
Out, the new Disney Pixar animated film;
Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder, a wacky
comedy based on the popular children's
books; and Thomas The Tank Engine film
Sodor’s Legend Of The Lost Treasure. Plus
the long-awaited Minions arrive!
Our Discover gems include Alive Inside,
a documentary film which demonstrates
the ability of music to combat memory
loss; film noir crime thriller Touch Of Evil;
and cinematic art film Man With A Movie
Camera.
Our Screen Arts shows for the summer
include RSC Encore: The Merchant Of
Venice, RSC Live: Othello and NT Live: The
Beaux’ Stratagem.
Finally, why not come and see us at this
year’s Food & Drink Festival over the August
Bank Holiday, where there will be a chilli
festival and farmers’ market? We will be one
of the many food and drink stalls attending,
and you will be able to sample Chef Alex’s
famous Nanaimo Bar!
Andrea Holmes,
Marketing Manager
Holiday Specials
Inside Out
Thomas &
Friends
Minions
Song Of The Sea Doctor Proctor's
Fart Powder
From 24 Jul
From 24 Jul
From 7 Aug
From 14 Aug
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Films
From 24 July
Continues
From 24 July
Inside Out (U)
13 Minutes (15)
Ant-Man (12A)
HOLIDAY SPECIAL
Director: Pete Docter.
Voices: Amy Poehler, Bill Hader,
Diane Lane. USA 2015. 102 mins.
Disney Pixar’s entrancing animated fable
follows eleven-year-old Riley (Kaitlyn
Dias), who is reluctantly uprooted from rural
Minnesota to San Francisco. We see her
experiences mostly through the emotions
inside her head. Five of them – Joy
(Poehler), Fear (Hader), Anger, Disgust and
Sadness – compete over how best to help
her deal with the challenges of a new life.
This magical and heartfelt film will intrigue
and entertain audiences of all ages.
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Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel. Starring:
Christian Friedel, Katharina Schüttler,
Burghard Klaußner. Germany 2015.
114 mins. German with English subtitles.
Opening as a tense action thriller,
Hirschbiegel’s second foray into Nazi
history after Downfall follows Georg Elser’s
(Friedel, The White Ribbon) unsuccessful
attempt to assassinate Hitler with a bomb that
exploded 13 minutes too late. The film then
flashes backwards and forwards between
Elser’s gradual path to radicalisation and the
increasingly desperate efforts of his captors to
uncover a non-existent political conspiracy.
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HOLIDAY SPECIAL
Director: Peyton Reed. Starring: Paul Rudd,
Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly. USA 2015. 117 mins.
A founding member of Marvel Comics’ super-successful Avengers finally bounds onto the big
screen, as thieving conman Scott Lang (Rudd, Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy)
dons the technologically amazing suit that enables him to shrink in size but surge in strength.
He comes to the aid of his mentor Dr Hank Pym (Douglas) to combat a real and present danger
to the entire world, which requires Lang to perpetrate a major heist. Along for the spectacular
ride are legendary Marvel characters Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) and Howard Stark (John
Slattery), with Evangeline Lilly (The Hobbit’s Tauriel) as Hope Van Dyne, Pym’s daughter and
the key to the heist’s success.
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Films
From 24 July
From 31 July
Thomas & Friends:
Sodor’s Legend Of The Lost Treasure (U)
The Salt Of The Earth (12A)
DOCUMENTARY
HOLIDAY SPECIAL
Directors: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders. Featuring: Sebastiaõ Salgado.
France/Brazil/Italy 2014. 110 mins. English, and French and Portuguese with English subtitles.
Director: David Stoten. Voices: Eddie Redmayne, John Hurt, Olivia Colman. UK 2015. 63 mins.
Toot toot! It’s all aboard for the latest big-screen adventure starring the nation’s favourite little
blue engine and his anthropomorphised steel-wheeled chums. Thomas unexpectedly uncovers
a secret underground pirate ship, and embarks on a thrilling hunt for lost treasure across the
island of Sodor. Released in Thomas’s 70th anniversary year, this action-packed animation
features a star-studded voice cast including John Hurt and Eddie Redmayne. Required viewing
for any self-respecting under-five.
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Veteran filmmaker Wim Wenders excels at creating documentary portraits of fellow artists,
as in his Buena Vista Social Club and Pina, the latter of which in particular also exemplifies
his visual virtuosity and ambition. That virtuosity is on display again in this powerful and at
times even awe-inspiring homage to the Brazilian photographer Sebastiaõ Salgado, whose
instantly recognisable black-and-white photographs have documented scenes of great suffering
as well as great beauty around the globe. In collaboration with Salgado’s son, Wenders
carefully chronicles all of Salgado’s major projects, from his shocking images of war and
genocide to those celebrating the grandeur of the natural world. But the film is also much more
than a photographic catalogue, probing the personal motivations behind Salgado’s lifelong,
worldwide vocation.
Contains images of real dead bodies.
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Films
From 31 July
From 7 August
Love & Mercy (12A)
Minions (U)
HOLIDAY SPECIAL
Director: Bill Pohlad. Starring: John Cusack, Paul Dano,
Paul Giamatti, Elizabeth Banks. USA 2014. 121 mins.
Long stereotyped as purveyors of mindless pop, The Beach Boys are now hailed as one of
the most artistically significant bands of all time. Love & Mercy centres on the fall and rise of
visionary songwriter Brian Wilson, juxtaposing his slide into mental illness during the 1960s
with his recovery and redemption in the 1980s. Co-written by Oren Moverman, who wrote
Todd Haynes’s acclaimed Dylan biopic I’m Not There, Love & Mercy similarly has different
actors representing the same character. Paul Dano is astonishing as the younger Brian,
overwhelmed by elation and despair while creating the album Pet Sounds; John Cusack gives
his best performance in years as the broken older Brian, rescued from a controlling ‘therapist’
(Giamatti) by the love and determination of Melinda Ledbetter (Banks). The result is a film that’s
heartbreaking and uplifting at once – much like Wilson’s music.
Contains drug use, references to child abuse and infrequent strong language.
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Directors: Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin. Voices: Michael Keaton,
Sandra Bullock, John Hamm. USA 2015. 91 mins.
Ever since the dawn of time, the Minions have lived to serve the biggest and baddest of villains.
Unsuccessful at keeping those masters, however – from T. rex to Napoleon – they eventually
find themselves with no one to serve, and fall into a deep depression. But one Minion named
Kevin has a plan, and alongside teenage rebel Stuart and lovable little Bob he ventures out
into the world to find a new evil boss for his brethren to follow. In this spectacular comedy
adventure, the trio embark on a thrilling journey that ultimately leads them to their next potential
mistress, Scarlet Overkill (Bullock), the world's first female supervillain. Travelling from frigid
Antarctica to 1960s New York City, they end up in swinging London, where they must face their
biggest challenge yet: saving all of Minionkind from annihilation.
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Films
From 7 August
From 7 August
Marshland (15)
Best Of Enemies (15)
Director: Alberto Rodríguez. Starring: Javier Gutiérrez, Raúl Arévalo,
María Varod. Spain 2014. 104 mins. Spanish with English subtitles.
Co-writer/director Alberto Rodríguez’s much-garlanded Unit 7 was a noirish police thriller set
in his Seville home town. With Marshland he’s moved an hour’s drive south to the Guadalquivir
wetlands, where a principled rookie cop (Arévalo) and his older, tougher-minded partner
(Gutiérrez) arrive to investigate the disappearance of two young sisters. It’s 1980, and Spain is
moving nervously from dictatorship to democracy. In a community riven by suspicion, misogyny
and a whiff of sexual abuse, the two cops have a hard task ahead of them, and their differing
methodologies – moral and otherwise – soon engender additional tension between them.
Rodríguez’s regular cinematographer Alex Catalán layers the suspenseful narrative with a
palette of agile, impressionist colours and imaginative angles, which add considerably to the
edginess of this masterfully executed drama.
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DOCUMENTARY
Directors: Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville.
Featuring: Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley Jnr. USA 2015. 88 mins.
During the controversial 1968 presidential election campaign, the then ailing ABC TV network
ran a series of debates between novelist and liberal iconoclast Gore Vidal and his polar
opposite on the right, William F. Buckley Jnr. This account of their heated if resolutely intellectual
clashes by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville – directors hitherto better known for music
documentaries (20 Feet From Stardom, Johnny Cash’s America) – is immensely enjoyable, not
least for archive contributions from the likes of Paul Newman and Dick Cavett. Actors Kelsey
Grammer and John Lithgow add engaging context by reading some of the great men’s writings,
while exchanges such as Vidal calling Buckley “a crypto-Nazi” and the latter then threatening
to “sock you in the face” are pure televisual adrenaline.
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Films
From 14 August
From 14 August
From 14 August
Song Of The Sea (PG)
The Man From
U.N.C.L.E. (12A)
Iris (12A)
Director: Guy Ritchie. Starring: Henry Cavill,
Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander USA 2015.
116 mins
Director: Albert Maysles. Featuring: Iris Apfel. USA 2014. 80 mins.
HOLIDAY SPECIAL
Director: Tomm Moore.
Voices: Brendan Gleeson,
David Rawle, Fionnula Flanagan.
Ireland/Denmark/Belgium/
Luxembourg/France 2014. 94 mins.
Oscar-nominated for The Secret Of Kells,
Irish director Tomm Moore again uses his
lavishly poetic hand-drawn style to create
this mystical tale. Ben (Rawle) and his
sister Saoirse – a selkie – embark on an
enchanted quest to recover Saoirse’s
magical cloak that transforms her into
a seal. Along the way they encounter
all manner of fairies and otherworldly
creatures, their entire adventure animated
with subtle, unique beauty.
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The iconic 1960s TV series gets a cool
makeover with this race-against-time action
comedy. America’s top secret agent, the
suave Napoleon Solo (Cavill, Man Of
Steel), gets reluctantly teamed up with Soviet
agent Illya Kuryakin (Hammer, The Lone
Ranger) by the international espionage
organisation U.N.C.L.E. Together they must
set aside their Cold War hostilities and locate
the daughter of a vanished German scientist
(Vikander, Ex Machina) before the world
goes kaboom.
Contains moderate action violence.
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DOCUMENTARY
The star of the late documentarian Albert Maysles’s penultimate film is Iris Apfel, a flamboyant
93-year-old American textile and interior designer who has become a fashion icon. It wasn’t
until she was in her 80s that she became well known for her unique improvised style, bringing
together layered jewellery and vibrant pattern contrasts. Always sporting her trademark giant
spectacles and riotously colourful outfits, Apfel delivers non-stop witty, quizzical banter.
Maysles creates a quietly impressive work as he joins her on her daily rounds of being
photographed for magazines or buying yet more outrageous furnishings for the homes
she shares with her devoted 100-year-old husband. As with his best-known documentary
Grey Gardens, Maysles himself appears in the film, adding a very personal tone to this
delightful portrait.
Contains infrequent strong language.
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Films
From 14 August
From 14 August
From 21 August
Manglehorn (12A)
Precinct Seven Five
Gemma Bovery (15)
Director: David Gordon Green.
Starring: Al Pacino, Holly Hunter,
Chris Messina. USA 2015. 97 mins.
A. J. Manglehorn (Pacino) is a former
baseball coach now working as a locksmith
in Texas. Living alone, he’s consumed by
memories of perceived romantic and career
failures. Whilst continuing to send letters
of regret to the love of his life, he sparks a
tentative affair with a bank clerk (Hunter).
David Gordon Green draws nuanced, gentle
performances from his cast in this quirky
character study.
Contains moderate sex references and
infrequent strong language.
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DOCUMENTARY
Director: Tiller Russell. USA 2014. 104 mins.
In the late 1980s and early ’90s, Brooklyn
was the murder capital of the USA, and
ground zero for the crack-cocaine epidemic.
One man led his crew on a rampage through
the streets of East New York,robbing dope
dealers at gunpoint, stealing countless kilos of
cocaine and hundreds of thousands of dollars
in cash. He was a New York City cop. This
is his story – a high-octane real-life thriller
about Michael Dowd, the dirtiest cop ever.
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Director: Anne Fontaine. Starring: Gemma Arterton, Fabrice Luchini, Niels Schneider.
France/UK 2014. 99 mins. English, and French with English subtitles.
Gemma Arterton (Tamara Drewe) stars as the near-namesake of Flaubert’s Emma Bovary in
this witty film adaptation of cartoonist-author Posy Simmonds’s archly satirical graphic novel.
With her weak-willed husband (Jason Flemyng), Gemma moves to a ramshackle farmhouse in
rural Normandy. She immediately bewitches Martin (Luchini, In The House), the local baker –
and the story’s narrator – who lusts after her. He ends up spying on her when she begins torrid
affairs with air-headed minor aristocrat Hervé (Niels Schneider) and later with an ex-beau.
As in Flaubert’s novel, these liaisons eventually go very wrong, albeit while delivering wildly
amusing consequences. Gemma’s almost-knowing naivety is wonderfully articulated by the
ever-radiant Arterton, and Luchini’s boggle-eyed, poker-faced comic edge is supremely
watchable.
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Films
From 21 August
From 21 August
From 28 August
Doctor Proctor’s
Fart Powder (PG)
Mistress America
45 Years (15)
HOLIDAY SPECIAL
Director: Arild Fröhlich.
Starring: Eilif Hellum Noraker,
Emily Glaister, Kristoffer Joner.
Norway 2014. 85 mins.
Scandinavia’s top crime writer, Jo Nesbø,
wrote this tale of two lonely children, Lise
(Glaister) and Bulle (Noraker), who develop
a keen interest in a mad scientist. The titular
Doctor Proctor (Joner) lives in a ramshackle
house hidden behind overgrown shrubbery.
The amiable barmy professor invents a
concoction intended to arrest his receding
hairline – but it has hilariously volcanic
side effects.
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Director: Noah Baumbach.
Starring: Greta Gerwig,
Lola Kirke. USA 2015. 84 mins.
Hot on the heels of While We’re Young,
Baumbach delivers another wry comedy of
manners, this time co-written with his star,
Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha). She plays
Brooke, the mile-a-minute new best friend of
Tracy (Kirke, Gone Girl), a smart but slightly
disappointed new girl in town whose mum is
engaged to Brooke’s dad. Bowled over by
her soon-to-be stepsister’s manic but oddly
endearing personality, Tracy soon finds
herself on a series of wild escapades.
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Director: Andrew Haigh. Starring: Charlotte Rampling,
Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James. UK 2015. 95 mins.
Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay star in this powerful relationship drama as Kate and
Geoff Mercer, a couple preparing to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary. Geoff is
unsettled by the news that the body of Katya, a long-lost sweetheart, has been discovered
frozen in a Swiss glacier. Initially sympathetic, Kate is first disturbed and then angered by
Geoff’s revelation that he is Katya’s next-of-kin. Their quietly affectionate, deep-rooted
marriage then has to endure unfamiliar doubts and misgivings. The attractively washed-out
Fenland setting somehow reflects the sense of empty betrayal Kate must weigh against her
husband’s admirable qualities, and the sensitive yet forceful performances of the two leads are
hugely rewarding.
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Community Screenings
Big Scream
Every Saturday at 10.30.
Tickets are £1.50 each.
Every Thursday at 10.30.
REMEMBER NEW START TIME OF 10.30
Family Films
Sat 25 Jul
London International Animation
Festival Shorts
(PG) 70 mins approx.
Sat 1Aug
Dr Seuss' The Lorax (U) 86 mins
Sat 8 Aug
The Chronicles Of Narnia:
The Lion, The Witch And The
Wardrobe (PG) 140 mins
Sat 15 Aug
Beauty And The Beast (1991)
(U) 92 mins
Sat 22 Aug
Legend Of The Guardians: The
Owls Of Ga'Hoole (PG) 97 mins
Our club for parents and carers with babies
under one year old. Members can bring
their baby to the film without having to worry
about causing a disturbance. Please note no
pushchairs or prams are permitted in
the screen. Please check in cinema or online
for details.
Silver Screen
The first show in each screen
every Friday.
Are you over 60? Join the Silver Screen
Club to enjoy a free tea or Americano and
a biscuit at our Silver Screen shows.
Annual membership is free.
Tickets £4.70, £2 supplement for 3D films.
Sat 29 Aug
Charlotte's Web (U) 97 mins
Dr Seuss' The Lorax
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Please note: parents may leave children over
eight alone in these screenings but should
be aware that the cinema is not providing
any official childcare. We do, however,
take special precautions to provide as safe
an environment as possible for younger
audiences. These include increased staffing
and ensuring that customers over 18 are not
admitted to the screening unless they are
accompanying a child. If you leave your
children in the cinema please be there on time
to collect them at the end of the film.
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Cinema For Schools
Film for education
or film for fun
If your school is interested in private
screen hire for an educational trip or
an end-of-term treat, contact us at
[email protected].
Great rates, and refreshments at
pocket-money prices.
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Discover Cinema
Whether it’s a vintage classic, an art-house gem or a riveting documentary,
there will always be something different to discover in our weekly strand.
Tue 28 Jul
Tue 4 Aug
Tue 11 Aug
Tue 18 Aug
Tue 25 Aug
Tue 1 Sep
A Girl Walks Home
Alone At Night (15)
Alive Inside
(Cert TBC)
Touch Of Evil (12A)
52 Tuesdays (15)
Director: Orson Welles.
Starring: Charlton Heston,
Janet Leigh, Orson Welles,
Marlene Dietrich. USA 1958.
111 mins.
Director: Sophie Hyde.
Starring: Tilda CobhamHervey, Del Herbert-Jane.
Australia 2013. 114 mins.
The Confessions Of
Thomas Quick (15)
Man With A
Movie Camera (U)
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour.
Starring: Sheila Vand, Arash
Marandi, Marshall Manesh.
USA 2014. 101 mins. Persian
with English subtitles.
Iranian writer-director Ana
Lily Amirpour’s debut feature
is an atmospheric vampire
story filmed in stunning
monochrome. In run-down
Bad City, the Girl (Vand,
Argo) is a hijab-cloaked
bloodsucker. Touring the
streets by night on her
skateboard, she meets Arash
(Marandi), a handsome
James Dean lookalike who
dreams of leaving the city.
Their slow-burn romance is
beautifully modulated, and
visual jokes abound.
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DOCUMENTARY
Director: Michael RossatoBennett. Featuring: Oliver
Sacks, Bobby McFerrin.
USA 2014. TBC mins.
Orson Welles’s bravura film
noir tells the shadowy tale
of Mike Vargas (Heston), a
This uplifting documentary
Mexican official investigating
won the Audience Award at
drug trafficking who is drawn
Sundance. The rejuvenating
into a murder case. Vargas
power of music – its profound
tries to expose the corruption
ability to define who we are
of an American cop (Welles),
and reconnect us with who we
putting himself and his wife
were – is at the heart of social
Susan (Leigh) in danger.
worker Dan Cohen’s crusade.
Welles’s deliriously daring
This joyful film follows his
thriller with a dark emotional
mission to help people with
core is one of the greatest of
Alzheimer’s, dementia and
its genre.
Parkinson’s by waking up the
Contains moderate violence,
care establishment to the fact
threat and drug references.
that music can be amazingly
transformative.
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Sixteen-year-old Billie’s
(Cobham-Hervey) reluctant
path to independence
is accelerated when her
mother reveals plans for
gender transition. Billie is
obliged to live with her father
(Beau Travis Williams),
and sees her mother just
once a week on the titular
Tuesdays. 52 Tuesdays – itself
filmed once a week, every
Tuesday for a year – tells an
emotionally charged story
of desire, responsibility and
transformation.
DOCUMENTARY
DOCUMENTARY
Director: Brian Hill. UK/
Sweden 2015. 94 mins.
English, and Swedish with
English subtitles.
In a high-security psychiatric
clinic sits Thomas Quick,
Sweden’s most notorious
serial killer, whose story
has shocked and haunted
the Swedish nation for over
20 years. However, new
evidence including testimony
from the man himself has
taken his terrifying case in
an even more disturbing
direction. With full access to
Quick, this real-life thriller
unravels the truth behind a
self-declared serial killer,
and uncovers a dark tale of
murder and lies.
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Director: Dziga Vertov.
USSR 1929. 68 mins. Silent.
Vertov’s most famous and
experimental feature is both a
lyrical montage of city life and
a delirious celebration of the
medium of film. The camera,
with its ability to see and
record sights not experienced
first-hand by the audience,
is cast as the hero of the film.
Man With A Movie Camera
remains a milestone of
cinematic modernism. It is a
witty, dazzling demonstration
of the relationship between
reality, perception and
‘realities’ constructed in art.
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Don't Miss: selected one-off sceenings
Thu 6 Aug, 20.30
Tue 11 Aug, 20.30
Unity (15)
The Damned:
Don’t You Wish That
DOCUMENTARY
We Were Dead
(15)
Sun 23 Aug, 18.00
Home From Home:
Chronicle Of A
Vision (15)
Director: Wes Orshoski.
USA 2015. 107 mins.
Director: Shaun Monson.
Featuring: Ben Kingsley,
Jennifer Aniston, Jeff
Goldblum. USA 2015.
99 mins.
Director: Edgar Reitz.
Starring: Jan Dieter
Schneider, Antonia Bill.
Germany/France 2013.
231 mins. German with
English subtitles.
From filmmaker Wes Orshoski
(Lemmy) comes the story of
the long-ignored pioneers
of punk. This chaotic and
often hilarious love song
to The Damned charts the
band’s complex history and
its famously out-of-order
infighting. Shooting around
the globe over three years,
Orshoski captures the band
as it celebrates its 35th
anniversary with a world tour
– and its estranged former
members strike out on an
anniversary tour of their own.
Rather like his 2005
documentary Earthlings,
writer-director Shaun
Monson’s latest film tackles
the interdependency of all
of Earth’s life forms – plants,
people and animals –
questioning why we can’t
all get along. Using myriad
archive clips and images, and
a starry panoply of narrators
including Jeff Goldblum,
Susan Sarandon, Ben
Kingsley and Jennifer Aniston,
it’s heartfelt, persuasive and
highly watchable.
Edgar Reitz’s epic prequel to
his era-defining Heimat takes
us back to the 1840s. Jakob
(Schneider) dreams of leaving
his poverty-stricken German
village and emigrating to
Brazil in search of a better
life, but fateful events
intervene. Magnificently
filmed and beautifully acted,
Home From Home has all
of the director’s trademark
realism, but is nonetheless
shot through with a streak of
lyrical romanticism.
DOCUMENTARY
Home From Home
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Cambridge Film Festival
Abbeygate Arts
3rd – 13th September
SELECTED SCREENINGS COMING SOON TO ABBEYGATE CINEMA
FESTIVAL PRIMER
A chance to whet the appetite for CFF 35 with some classic titles, new restorations,
previews and a celebrity Q & A for the award winning 45 YEARS.
Sunday 2 August, 8.30
LA GRANDE BOUFFE (Fr/It 1973, 133min)
Re-mastered, restored – a sensation when it played at two
consecutive late night screening at the Arts Theatre. Like a May Ball
with real excess and no censorship!
Sunday 9 August, 8.30
The Beaux' Strata
gem
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (USSR 1929, 65min)
Restored with Meisel’s original score, and screening with the newly
restored print of Dziga Vertov’s MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA with
new score by the Alloy Orchestra.
Sunday 16 August, 8.30
BEST OF ENEMIES (US 2015, 88min)
With Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jnr. Legendary series of head
to head debates of the Democratic and Republican Conventions of
’68. Compulsive and hugely entertaining viewing.
Wednesday 19 August, 8.30
VIVA LA MUERTE (Spain/Tunisia 1970, 90min)
Wed 29 Jul, 19.00 RSC Encore: The Merchant Of Venice
Sun 9 Aug. 18.00 Glyndebourne Live: The Rape Of Lucretia
Wed 12 Aug, 18.30 Exhibition On Screen: The Impressionists
Wed 26 Aug, 19.00 RSC Live: Othello
Wed 2 Sep, 19.00 RSC Encore: Othello
Thu 3 Sep, 19.00 NT Live: The Beaux' Stratagem
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Surrealist delights from Arrabal in his first feature – a violent
allegory of Spain’s Civil War. Plus UN CHIEN ANDALOU,
Bunuel-directed classic from the ’20s.
Sunday 23 August, 6.00
45 YEARS (GB 2014, 90min)
Excellent performances by Tom (Geoff) and Charlotte (Kate) as
they are about to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary. A letter
to Geoff casts a dark shadow over events. We hope to have a very
special Q & A after the screening. Check the Film Festival for updates.
Wednesday 26 August, 8.30
THE TIN DRUM (West Ger/Fr/Pol/Yugo 1979, 163min)
Written by Jean-Claude Carriere, Volker Schlondorff and Gunter
Grass, from Grass’s novel. Note: we shall screen Schlondorff’s
director’s cut of 163min.
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Cambridge Film Festival presents
Grantchester Meadows
29th – 31st August
Start times: 8.00pm or dusk
Saturday 29th
Sunday 30th
Monday 31st
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001
(GB 1968, 141min).
Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO
THE FUTURE with Michael
J Fox and Christopher Lloyd
(US 1985, 116min).
Thomas Hardy’s FAR
FROM THE MADDING
CROWD by Thomas
SUPPORTED BY
MOVIES ON THE MEADOW
Our biggest ever weekend of open air screenings with over 10 films
to see, plus Riverside Romance by Punt on Monday 31st.
Liverside Romance
Monday
31st
by Punt
Jean Renoir’s masterpiece PARTIE
DE CAMPAGNE (Fr 1946, 40min).
We could think of no other other film
so appropriate for Grantchester.
From a story by Guy de Maupassant,
photographed by Claude Renoir, music by Joseph Kosma. The
only way to see this sublime film.
Surprise Romantic moments by moonlight. Limited
Tickets for the Riverside Punt!
All tickets £30 to include food and drink, blankets, hot water
bottles and ponchos. Start times: 7.45 & 8.15.
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Paul King’s PADDINGTON
with the voices of Hugh
Bonneville, Ben Wishaw
and Julie Walters (GB 2014,
95min).
James Marsh’s THE
THEORY OF
EVERYTHING with Eddie
Redmayne and Felicity Jones
(GB 2014, 123min).
David Lean’s BRIEF
ENCOUNTER with Celia
Johnson and Trevor Howard
(GB 1946, 89min).
Douglas Sirk’s ALL THAT
HEAVEN ALLOWS
with Rock Hudson and Jane
Wyman (US 1955, 89min). The
inspiration for Fassbinder’s
Fear Eats the Soul and Todd
Haynes’ Far From Heaven.
Lionel Jeffries’ THE
RAILWAY CHILDREN
with Bernard Cribbins and
Jenny Agutter (GB 1970,
108min).
Booking opens August 1st
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Arts Picturehouse
Max Ophuls’ unforgettable
tale of unrequited love
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Vinterberg, with Carey
Mulligan, Mathias Schoenaerts,
Michael Sheen and Tom
Sturridge. (GB 2015, 119min).
Joan Fontaine and
Louis Jourdan
(US 1948,
90min).
Cult Film Club
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DIGITAL RESTORATION
Director: Bruce Robinson. Starring:
Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann,
Richard Griffiths. UK 1987. 107 mins.
Director: Tony Scott.
Starring: Christian Slater, Patricia
Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Christopher
Walken. France/USA 1993. 119 mins.
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Written by Quentin Tarantino, True Romance
is a hip, hard-edged story of modern love.
Clarence (Slater) and Alabama (Arquette)
enjoy a whirlwind courtship, until violence
erupts and they find themselves on the run
from police and gangsters alike. Now on
a digital print for the very first time, True
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The finest cult comedy known to humanity!
Fed up with London, two ‘resting’ (i.e.
unemployed) actors – a drifter (McGann)
and his outrageous flatmate Withnail (Grant)
– embark on a weekend in the countryside
that soon turns into a hilarious disaster,
especially when Withnail’s terrible Uncle
Monty (Griffiths) turns up. Screening in a
restored version that returns the look of the
original 35mm print.
True Romance (18)
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Ant-Man
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Inside Out, daily
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A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Tue
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19.00
Fri 31 Jul
Marshland
Best Of Enemies
Minons
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Mistress America
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Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder
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Family Films
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,
Sat 10.30
Thomas & Friends, Wed 11.00
Minions, daily (not Sun)
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Touch Of Evil, Tue
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Glyndebourne Live: The Rape Of
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Exhibition On Screen: The Impressionists,
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Legend Of The Guardians, Sat 10.30
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RSC Live: Othello, Wed 19.00
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Home From Home, Sun 18.00
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Love & Mercy
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The Salt Of The Earth
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Alive Inside, Tue
Special
The Damned, Thu 20.30
Unity, Tue 20.30
Fri 28 Aug
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Manglehorn
Precinct Seven Five
Song Of The Sea
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Beauty And The Beast, Sat 10.30
Song Of The Sea, daily (not Sun)
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45 Years
Gemma Bovery
Family Films
Charlotte's Web, Sat 10.30
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Man With A Movie Camera, Tue
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